Simple Idea - Tough Reality - A Dear Friend Goes Home

Stay Simple- You Never Cease to Exist!

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We're (all of us) eternal, let's approach it from
the simplest thing that we know; matter is neither
created nor destroyed; except, for the first
singularity - creation. Now that's a physicist
approach, a scientific way of looking at what
we are- we are, always going to be. Now let's
expand that just one step, we will change;
Paul in the New Testament reinforces the
teaching of Christ in that, we will change,
but we will not cease to exist.

Keep It Simple - Eternal Is
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Today a friend of mine for over a year of
knowing him and praying for him, changed
from this reality to the next.  His passing is
significant because the testimony of his
life, is significant, because he accomplished
a great deal for the kingdom, and, he
endured endless pain and suffering, and
without complaint; the entire time that I
was blessed to know him.

What does it mean to suffer quietly but
to rejoice both inwardly and outwardly
at every day of life?  It means that we
feel and believe and live knowing that
we can endure and overcome even pain,
if we stay close enough to Christ and
listen attentively enough to Holy Spirit
as He leads us.  The pain does not go
away, that would be Paul the Apostle's
testimony, in fact he suffered to the point
that three times he appealed to God to
lessen the pain, and, was refused?  Yet
at the end of that experience, what he
shares with us is, what he learned.

In following Jesus I think there are some
aspects of the journey which are tough,
forgiving those who aren't easy to forgive,
that's one. Loving yourself, that's another;
and constant pain, such as Arthritis, a
daily reminder that your joints aren't
what they used to be, a third.

 My friend was mastering the latter,
pain, intense and constant pain; when
God finally ended  the endurance trial.
Yet, the wonderfully full of life;
truth is, we're already missing him, and
we grieve. But we also know, he lived,
really lived, and loved, really loved,
and Jesus is his savior, and he is now
home; but his witness shall live on here.

Keep It Simple - And You?

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 What we say now is that we can look

at the life we saw lived before us and 

realize that Christ was his center.

Faith was his power, and that now,

we can know, faith works, pain can be

endured, and in the end, that's a great

story to share with folks. The courage 

of a person who endured, and the

faith that they never surrendered

in Christ as their savior- and you?